Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1942 — Page 9

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EASING OF FUEL CHADS IS SEEN

Washington Expected to] . Give State Same Relief

Accorded Chicago. 5 . (Continued from Page One)

#: 1] IRE SES ‘JUWN | | FLIGHT OF 12 ZEROS in use. EE n= PHYS T00 MUCH FOR COFFEE, GETS $50

entire flight of 12 zero fighters in NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (U. P.).—

the Solomons, the navy a Mrs. Mollie Markun, a housewife,

today. Port Moresby—Two hostile planes raided Port Moresby at night without damage. The big air battle occurred yesterday was awarded $50 by a NEW BRITAIN—Gssmata: Our heavy | Wednesday (island time) in the vi- “.d v found bombers downed eight enemy fighters cinity of the enemy's mew Munda [Municipal court jury which that had been overcharged two cents for a pound of coffee.

which attempted interception without loss | airfield on New Georgia island, 250

MacAURTHUR COMMUNIQUE § ued Thursday, Dec. 17) TERN SECTOR:

CENTRAL TOWNS

Blizzards Sweep Front and Snow Is Waist Deep

In Some Sectors. MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (U, P.).—The

Nora yun Buna pressure on the enemy is slowly in A Huea Guif—An aliled medium unit downed one out of eight intercepting

enemy fighters.

to themselves. (This refers to Tuesday

“encouraged” by the results of the : Kelly-Henderson conference. . Meanwhile, OPA officials in

- Washington said that they planned to take much of the work load off the rationing boards by instituting the ration-banking plan on a na-tion-wide basis in January. This plan simply enables retailers

to deposit their coupons in com- |:

mercial banks and to write checks on them when buying supplies from wholesalers. The banks are to be paid a small fee by the OPA for handling this business.

Eases Board Work

Clifford Houser, regional rationing executive of the office of price administration, said that the system would take from the over-worked ration boards a vast amount of clerical and accounting duties. As the state OPA officials awaited word from Washington on their three-point proposal, Governor '.Schricker telegraphed Governor ‘Green of Illinois that he believed ‘the rationing program is being ad-. “ministered fairly in Indiana. The Illinois governor had asked ‘Mr. Schricker to join in a request to Washington for the postponement of fuel oil rationing until Jan. 15. In his telegram, Mr. Schricker said that he had been assured by state OPA officials that “the program is flexible enough so that no "undue hardships will be visited on the young, elderly and infirm, and that Washington OPA has, through

« such flexibility, the power to take

cognizance of abnormal weather conditions and revalue coupons accordingly.”

Ask Moratorium

= Other requests made by the state OPA officials yesterday to Washington were for a moratorium until Jan, 25 on reports by rationing boards and oil companies in order to permit them more time to complete the rationing program and for permission to allow the rationing board discretion in issuing inventory coupons which would permit dealers to obtain additional supplies from refineries. The new xgation-banking plan will work in the following manner, according to Washington OPA officials: Deposits of ration coupons and other documents are recorded in separate commodity ration pank accounts; for example, a retailer whfo deals in both sugar and gasoline, ~ would have a separate bank account for sugar and another for gasoline. The accounts are kept 'in

. pounds or gallons, instead of dol- |.

- lars and cents. When the businessmen desires to replenish his supply of a given ratiened commodity he draws a “ration check” against the credits for that commodity that he has established in his ration bank account and turns this over to his supplier. The latter, in turn, deposits the

DRUM OUTFITS Special

Homer L. Rogers

Equitable Life’s State Manager Was Ill Five Months.

(Continued from Page One)

fayette and South Bend. His agency has been among the first 10 of equit-

many years. In November the Indiana organization led all other» He was .active in the local life underwriters association and was president of the state association for eight years. He was elected trustee of the National Association of Life Underwriters in 1941. While in Indianapolis Mr, Rogers lived at the Spink-Arms hotel. He was a member of Mystic Tie lodge 398, F. and A. M. Scottish Rite, Shrine, Columbia club and ' the Maxinkuckee Country club. A native of Starke county, he was educated at Valparaiso university. He taught school in Pulaski county, becoming the ‘youngest county suptrintendent of schools in the state when he was 23. He first entered the insurance business in 1908 and went with the Equitable Life Insurance society in 1911 as an agent. He was married to Grace Lichty of Starke county in 1907. Survivors are the wife; a daugh-

son; two sisters; two brothers, and one granddaughter,

CHIEF GRANTED LEAVE

DECATUR, Ind., Dec. 17 (U. P)). —The Decatur city council last

Saturday. The resolution provides

upon his discharge from the army.

“check” in his own ration bank account and it is cleared through the bank exactly as are checks for money. The, ration check signifies, of course, only the buyer’s right to obtain the commodity, and does not represent payment. The system will replace that by which traders take stamps, coupons and various forms of certificates, totaling many millions each month, to the local war price and rationing boards to exchange them for certificates of larger denomination to be used in replacing supplies. Compensation of the banks is being worked out on a careful ac-

counting basis.

Although

able agencies in production for.

Red army driving ahead through blizzards and waist-deep snow, captured five towns west ‘of Rzhev, on

“|| the central front, today, killed 2000

Germans and destroyed 24 tanks. These made eight towns and villages the Russians have wrested from the Germans west of Rzhev in the last two days. ' Dispatches said that where the weather permitted Soviet Stormovik planes ruled the air, hedge-hopping| go, over German lines in two or threeyard ceilings.

20 Guns Captured

German prisoners said the Nazis didn’t have enough planes left to support their infantry. Besides killing 2000 Germans and destroying 24 tanks, the Soviet high command reported the destruction of 20 guns and 80 machine gun points, and the capture of two dumps of materiel, three ammunition dumps and other important booty. In their other offensive, the Russians surged forward southwest of

ter, Mrs. Richard Derry of Ander-|"

night granted an indefinite leave of | absence.to Police Chief James Bord-| ers, who entered army service last! :

that Borders again become chief 3

Stalingrad, took a number of fortified points and killed 400 Germans. Panicky, the Germans threw down their arms and retreated. On another sector southwest of Stalingrad, Soviet forces pursuing the Germans; destroyed nine tanks and 11 anti-aircraft guns, wiped out a company (200) and captured prisoners. These actions followed the routing of enemy forces who had broken through to the Verkendumski area, 60 miles southwest of Stalingrad. In two days there, the Russians had knocked out 50 tanks and killed 3000 men in checking the biggest coun-ter-thrust since their offensive opened in November.

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NAVY COMMUNIQUE 222:

(Issued Thursday, Dec. 17) t S0UTH PACIFICO (all dates east longiude) 1. on Dec. 16: pA. A number of navy dive bombers uglas Dauntless’’) attacked Japanese ships’ sud installations in the Mun of Georgia island. An enemy deay (or cruiser) was hit and damaged. 2» Dauntless. Ialed to Fess up of ing. fortresses” (Boeing gs 50 17) was yor A by 12 land}1ps enemy zeros in the vicinity of New Georgia island. The entire intercepting force of zeros was shot down. One fortress was lost, but th ecrew was rescued.

miles northwest of Guadacanal. It cost thesAmericans one flying fortress, the crew of which was saved.

On the same day, Douglas Daunt- | Gold.

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less dive-bombers attacked enemy ships and installations in the Munda ‘area, hitting ‘and _ damaging one Japanese destroyer or cruiser. One Dauntless was lost. The dive bomber attack was the sixth consecutive raid on the Munda area. The navy did not say what mission the flying fortresses were carrying out when the 12 zeros’ attacked. They were, however, “in the |ask vicinity of New Georgia island,” and

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